Just bought my first router and some how stumbled upon this video. Very good video for people like me with their first router and have never routed anything in the past. Thank You Very much for taking the time to make this video. Very good tips for safety and hopefully great routing.
I just bought my first router and never been told about the oil and depth of the bit. It is well appreciated to see someone who is willing to share those "little tricks" of the trade. I always thought that the everything was done in one pass too. Its nice to know that I was wrong. Thanks a million and I subscribed right after 2 minutes of viewing.
Excellent video, my husband passed away of small cell lung cancer 10 months ago, He left behind a wonderful wood work shop. I am going to school to learn his trade. I want to be safety conscious and finish the projects he left behind. I am figuring that videos will help me gain confidence in working in his cabinet shop. Thanks for the tutorial, helped me a lot. I am confused with all the profile bits he has. He was working on raised panel doors, got any tips on this? Thanks Linda
Sorry for your loss :( I'm sure your husband would be proud that you are learning his trade, and you can also be proud of yourself for accomplishing a trade as well. May you enjoy the woodworking shop for many years to come.
i like your videos, i'm just starting out in my new woodshop, i don't have the best of the best tools but i do have safe tools to use, i'm looking forward to seeing many more of your videos, thanks
I like the education here. Much of it I know, but I always learn just a bit more! What kind of lubricant do you use on the collet? It looks like a motor oil, but if I am going to do something new, I want to do it right! THanks!
"That's called a rub ring...it allows it to spin without burning the wood as the profile makes it's cut". That is called a (ball) bearing. It allows the router bit to exactly follow the edge you are cutting a profile into. You don't call a profiling bit "profile". It cuts a profile. That's just confusing. Oiling the clamping surface of a fast spinning collet. Great, next let's oil the brake discs in the car when they start to screech, shall we? The threads, ok, why not. Using routers without ear protection? Straight to hearing loss. Using a small trim router on a very narrow workpiece that just lies on a grippy table mat? Kickback, tipping router, ruined cut, tears and pain. Calling router profiling bits "profiles"? Makes it weird to understand when he actually means a profile in a workpiece. Does he call hand plane blades "planes", circular saw blades "saws"? Claims he was machinist, yet struggles to explain simple things like "Always keep the router perpendicular to the edge you're cutting or the cut will not be consistent and you will endanger the entire experience"? Totally weird and sketchy terms used by a self proclaimed professional. Tells you it's good practise to sling a mains power cord over your body when common sense tells you to never do that? I bet there are even some statements in OSHA regulations that say it is not safe practise to wrap energized power cords around your body. Says on the router table you should never hold the piece closer than one fist's width towards the fence? Perfect opportunity to have the piece tilt during a cut because you push exactly on the opposite side you are supposed to. You should push the workpiece forward right at the fence, and towards the fence at the same time, so it will stay riding exactly along the fence. No one said you only have to use your hands, use pushsticks if you feel uncomfortable. The farther away from the fence you push, the more dangerous and unreliable and unstable it becomes. If this is what "machinists" preach in "Shop Class" to American students, it would explain why most hospital ERs say a major trauma admit percentage is power tool "accidents". Also, he looked almost afraid of the router table when he used it. Arms completely extended, body posture defensive, so no real fine control over feed pressure. Looked like he held his breath with each cut. Totally weird presentation. Same with the table saw. When the tilted cut was about to kick back, he forced it through, probably because he didn't want to look weak on video. Also the riving knife seemed to be all the way down for some reason. Again, totally weird and counterproductive, dangerous practise. Bear in mind this video is only 5 years old. It's not like this was shot on VHS back in the day. I'm glad only 50k people watched it and hopefully didn't take much away from it, other than the fact that he absolutely looks like Alan from Two And A half Men.
